Benefits of Being a Teacher

In the world of IT and computers, most of the youngsters dream of becoming an engineer, doctor, architect or a businessman but rarely the youth gives a thought to become a teacher. I know it is not that glamorous and whenever we think about our teachers we recall some boring looking spectacle clad people with a fixated question mark on their faces. But come on guys, teaching can be fun with you being a lively teacher. Teachers are held second only to the parents. Their contribution in building our future is no less than our parents. So if you too wish to take up a job that involves shaping the future of tomorrow then nothing is better than that. I will tell you some of the other benefits of being a teacher that are sure to motivate you and create a better future generation.

Great Working Hours
Think about your corporate counterparts who work for hours along with hectic shifts. Compared to that, being a teacher saves a lot of time that you can spend with your family, friends and have a social life. Most of the school durations are maximum 6 hours so a school teachers has to work for 6 or maximum 8 hours a day. If you are a special subject teacher then you have to work even less. Minimum working hours is one of the greatest benefits of being a preschool teacher.

Job Security
In the betraying world of recession where people are fired without any prior notification, teaching is one profession that is relatively secure. Have you heard of a teacher being fired ever. Well very rarely if you ever have. Because whatever happens children are sent to schools and when they come authorities need teachers to teach them and manage them. So being a teacher is quite relaxing and securing. Especially, if you are associated with a government school that have strict rules and provisions for terminating teachers compared to private schools.

Great Paid Vacations
Imagine, you can spend every vacation with your family and children. In how many other profession does this happen? Hardly any profession allows you to avail this kind of luxury. The reason is obvious and simple. When the kids have holidays you get some automatically. Be it Christmas vacations, summer breaks, or whatever holiday, you are sure to enjoy them.

Building Knowledge
Someone has rightly said that teaching once is equal to learning for one more time. And that is what makes a good teacher. Teaching allows you to build and strengthen your knowledge. Kids ask so many questions and in order to find the answers, you will go so deep into the subject that you are sure to be a master of that subject. When you have to teach something, you obviously have to be completely knowledgeable about that subject. This is one of the biggest benefits of being a teacher that can help you sharpen your intelligence.

Your Wish is their Command
This is one of the greatest benefits of being a kindergarten teacher. Imagine you are always surrounded with cute looking innocent people who are there to obey all your instructions. And for them you are no less than an idol. The young ones generally bug their parents talking about their teacher- "today miss said this", "miss taught me a poem", "sir did that", and so on. So virtually you are going to be their world. Isn't it great to be such an important part of many angels.

Big Paychecks and Scholarships
One of the benefits of becoming a teacher is getting a big fat salary and scholarship offers. In most of the schools, teachers are encouraged to study further or pursue some courses or doctorate, etc. They are many scholarships for teachers so that they can study further while on the job. This way, they get the salary and scholarship both. What an opportunity! With a higher qualification, salary also raises.

These were some of the benefits of being a teacher. Apart from this, teaching job is very flexible. Teachers can experiment with variety of teaching methods and teaching medias. Now you know what are the benefits of being a teacher but teaching is associated with some disadvantages, such as:

• Handling complaining parents
• Dealing with naughty and arrogant children
• Handling many children at a time
• Many have to take work home sometimes
• Attending parents meetings, staff meetings and carrying out grading, planning school functions, and conferences, etc.

But the above disadvantages can be easily tackled if you have patience, good communication skills, time management skills, passion for teaching and good qualities. Surely, the benefits of being a teacher are more than shortcomings. So go ahead and grab the chance of influencing people's lives positively.